Refugium Botanicum.} (January, 1870. 
TAB. 183. 
Natural Order Liniace2. 
Tribe ScILLE&. 
Genus Scinua, Linn. 
Sub-genus Leprsourr, Roth. (See Appendix). 
S. ovatirotia, Baker. Bulbis magnis ovoideo-rotundatis dimidio supe- 
riore epigeeo subsquamoso, foliis 4—5 synanthiis ascendentibus 
carnoso-herbaceis cordato-ovatis bi-tripollicaribus subobtusis pallide 
glauco-viridibus maculis saturatioribus notatis, scapis 2-—8 arcuatis 
foliis brevioribus, racemo oblongo-conico denso 30—40-floro, pedicellis 
cernuis floribus zegre excedentibus, laciniis purpureo-viridibus 38 lin. 
longis, filamentis laciniis triente brevioribus dimidio superiore pur- 
pureo, ovario distincte stipitato, basi discoideo ampliato. 
Introduced from Natal by Mr. Cooper. 
Very near the last, and perhaps only a variety of it. Bulbs 
round, two inches in thickness, the upper half emergent and sub- 
squamose. Leaves four or five to a root, ascending, fleshy- 
herbaceous, cordate-ovate, two to three inches long by eighteen 
to twenty-one lines broad when fully-developed, bluntish, clasping 
the scapes at the base, pale glaucous-green with deeper green 
spots above, very pale glaucous and not spotted beneath. Scapes 
one to three from a root, arcuate, two to three inches long. 
Riaceme densely thirty- to forty-flowered, the lower pedicels 
cernuous, rather shorter than in the last. Flower, stamens and 
ovary just the same as in S. lanceefolia. 
Tab, 183.—1, separate flower; 2, pistil: both magnified.—J. G. B. 
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For treatment see Tab. 179.—W. W. S. 
